High praise for Drum at awards
Newspaper places in top three for Best Overall, Best Front Page and Best Feature Story
NNSL staff
Northern News Services
Thursday, June 16, 2016
INUVIK
The Inuvik Drum garnered some prestigious awards at this year's annual regional competition with the Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association.
The newspaper was presented with the third place Best Overall Score prize in its circulation class at a gala event in Edmonton, May 27.
The Drum also received a second place score for Best Front Page.
The judges didn't stop there. Writer Andrew Livingstone won high praise for a feature article published in the Drum on March 5, 2015, entitled "Last of the original reindeer herders."
Livingstone took the overall third place prize for Best Feature Story. The piece documents the history of reindeer herding in the area and the Binder clan's special relationship to the animals.
"Eighty years ago more than 3,000 Alaska reindeer were herded eastward, in an Ottawa-sponsored drive to provide meat to residents in Canada's North," wrote the judge.
"This deftly-written feature recounts that remarkable venture, and then profiles a present-day herdsman, whose parents were central to the relocation story."
The Inuvik Drum is one of approximately 120 member newspapers of the Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association, whose mission is to promote newspapers in the communities they serve while encouraging community newspaper excellence.
